Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-16


parlor, upon his nursery. The blessing
comes in at the front door and st the
back door and down through the sky
lights. God draws long mark of credit
for services received. Christ said TO his
disciples; "He thxt receiveth you
receiveth Me; and ne that Civ
eth cup OF cold water in the
name CT q disciple shall in 20 wise lose
his reward 'As we have b ,dso mt L hin2s
recorded against Us in heaven, it will De
q satisfaction TO have written or unfail-
ing archives, the tac3 inst in the month
OF May, or June, Of September, or De-
cember, 1857, We made the bIssiul mis-
take Of supposiog that We were enter
timing wesk men like ourselves, when
10. they showed their pinioos before they
LETT, and we found out thst they were
angels unawaTcs.
An other reward comes il the good
wishes aud prayers OF OuE guests. do
not think ones house ever gets over hav-
ing had g good man or woman a5ide :here.
George Whitfield used 10 scratch on the
window OF the room where ne w38 enter
tanned passage of Scripture, and in one
case, sitter he left, the whole household
was converted by the reading Of that
OGECdSS Ou -1C NluttJ ~ JAZZ lC
woman Of Shunem furnished
LITTLE ROOM
over the wall for Elisha. snd sill the ages
have heard the glorious consequences.
Ol cold, stormy winter night my Esther
entertained Truem1n Osborne, the evan
gelist, and through Gll eternity l will
thank God that Trueman Os3 RE stopped
at oar house, How many Of our guests
have brought to US condOience ana sym
pathy and help: There is 2 legend told
Of Saint Sebald that in mis- Christian
rounds he used to stop for entertainment
at the house Of q poor cartwright Com
ing there one day, ne found the cart
wright and his family freezing for the
lack of shy fuei. STINT SeOald ordered
the man to 90 Ogt and break the icicles
from TIE side Of the house and bring them
in; and the icicles were brought into the
house and thrown OF the hearth, and they
began TO blaze Immediately, &nd the
freezing family gathered around and
we're warmed by them. That Yas le-
gend, but how often have cur guests
come in to gather up the cold,
freezing sorTOWs OF our life, ktndUrg
them into illumination, and warmth, and
good cheer. He who opens his house TO
Christian hospitality, turns those VINO
are Strangers into friends. Years will go
by, and there Will be great Chsnges in
you. and there will be great changes in
them. Some day you will be sitting il
loneliness, watching q bereavement, and
you will get z letter IN O strange haDd-
writing, and yCu Hill lock st the post
cficG mark, dnd say; "Why, | don't
know anybody living in that city" and
you will break the envelope, end there
you will read the Story CT thanks for yOuT
Christian generosity long years before,
and how they h5ye heard aiar eff Of your
trouble. And the letter will be so full Of
kindly "Reminiscences and Christian con-
doleLce, it VIII be : plaster large enough
TO cover 10 81 the deep esshes u your
soul When we take people into our
houses as Christian guests, We take them
into our Sympathies forever. In bort,
HoiIsuj q soldier with sword al MS
side stopped at house, desiring lodging
a1d shelter. The woman Of the house st
frs.
REFUSED ADNITTANCE.
saying thst the men ofthe mouse were rot
sc home; MT When be showed MS ere
dentials th2. he had been honoraJly dis
charged FROM the army, ne was admitted
aGG tarriad during the night. Ia the
night time there was Q knocking at the
front door, aud two rufaps broke in
to d6spoil the b0ushold. No sooner had
they come over the door sill than the
armed gueat, who had primed his piece
and chsrSed il With slugs, met them, and
telling the women to stand back, | am
happy to say, dropped the two asssulting
desp2r&dCes dead 1T his feet. Well, now
there are no bandits proving around TO
destroy our houses; but how often It is
that We find those that have heen cur
guests become our defenders. We gave
them shelter fest, and then afterwards in
the great conflicts Of life they fought for
our regulations; they fought for our
property; theY fought for our soul.
Another reward that comes from
Christian hospitality is in the assurance
that we she'll have hospitality shown to
Us and TO ours. In the upturDiDgs Of
this life, who knows in what city or what
land we may be thrown, and how much
we may need an open door? There may
come no such crisis to US, but cur
children may be thrown into some such
strait. He who is in Christian manner
bOstiteble, has G. free pass through al
Chr .gtendOm. l. may be that you vii.
have been dead fifty years before any
such stress shall come upon one Of your
| descendants but do you not suppose
that God can remember 1iity years? and
| the k1uckle OF the gTsndcbild Will be
! heard against the door Of some stranger,
and thst door will opeDi and Il will be
! talked over in heaven, and It will be
Said "That mans grandfather
| FIFTY YEARS AGO
gave shelter 30 g stranger, and now g
strangers door is opsn Tor grandson. u
Among the Greeks, after entertaining
and being entertaiGed, they take piece
Of lead aud cut it in two, and the host
takes one half CT the piece CT lead and
the guest takes the other hal as they
part. These two pieces Of lead are
handed down from generation to gener-
alton, and from family 10 family; and
after awhile, perhaps, one Of the families
in want Or in trouble, 90 out with this
one piece Of lead and find the other fam
! lily with the corresponding piece OF lead,
/ and no sooner is the tally completed than
( the old hospitality is aroused, and eternal
/ friendship pledged. SO the memory Of
Christian hospitality will 90 down from
generation TO generation, and from fam
/ lily to family, and the tally Will never be
! lost, neither in this world nor the world
| to come.
Marx this: The day will come when We
will all be turned out of doors, without
any approximation, barehead, nc
water in the canteen, no bread in the
haVerscck, and we will 60 in that way In
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